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Amy, or Ami

Lat.], usually called prochein amy, the next friend (as distinguished from the guardian) suing on behalf of an infant. Infants sue by a next friend and defend by a guardian ad litem; see R. S. C. Ord.

Overlie

To lie over or upon specifically to suffocate by lying upon as to overlie an infant

Account stated

(1921) 38 TLR 134. For statutory power to re-open an account stated, see MONEY LENDERS ACT. By the Infants Relief Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 62), s. 1, an account stated with an infant is

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Abortion

in the discretion of the Court. A person charged under this s. may be convicted under the (English) Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo 5, c. 34). By s. 59 of the Act of

Snug

Close and warm as an infant lies snug

Pickaninny

A small child especially a negro or mulatto infant Now 2001 used primarily in the latter sense and in that sense often considered derogatory

Pedobaptist

One who advocates or practices infant baptism

Alien

third (ss. 10-28) containing certain general and supplemental provisions, relating to the national status of married women and infant children, loss of British Nationality, the status of aliens, and procedure and evidence. The effect of the Act

Bounty

traders, etc. (4) King's Bounty: the grant made by the Crown on the birth of three or more infants in wedlock at one confinement. Means a premium or benefit offered or given especially by a Government, to

Chancellor, Lord

the value of twenty marks per annum in the king's books. He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics, and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses'and all this, over and above the

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